Cotton Spinning: Its Development, Principles, and PracticeGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 361 pages |
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Arkwright's arrangement attached attenuated backing-off chain bobbin boiler carriage carried centre coiled comb commencement cone connected connecting rod cotton counter faller counts cylinder diameter doubling drawing drawing rollers driving drum faller wire fibres fixed flyer front gearing Hargreaves improvement inches incline increased invention inventor jenny latter layer length lever lifting loose machine means mechanical mill motion movement mule nippers obtained operation outward run pair passing perfect pinion Platt Bros portion Portrait position production pulley quadrant result revolution revolutions per minute revolving ring frame roller beam round roving frame Samuel Crompton scroll seed shaft shown in Fig sliver slubbing speed spindles spinner spinning frame spun strap stretch surface teeth thread throstle tin roller tion trade Trans traverse tube turned twist uncoiled vols warp yarns water frame weft weight wheel whilst winding faller winding-on wound yarn
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